Robotino

Posted by pogo on June 27, 2008, 3:41 am

Stumbled across this ad while on Amazon.
Sweet looking little robot package. You gotta *request* a price, though. Gotta
feeling that means it will be pricey !!!!

http://www.festo-didactic.com/int-en/learning-systems/new-robotino/the-complete-robotino-package.htm

JCD

Posted by John Nagle on June 28, 2008, 1:30 pm

pogo wrote:

> Stumbled across this ad while on Amazon. Sweet looking little robot
> package. You gotta *request* a price, though. Gotta feeling that means
> it will be pricey !!!!
>
>

http://www.festo-didactic.com/int-en/learning-systems/new-robotino/the-complete-robotino-package.htm

It's very Festo. Beautiful mechanics, but rather simple software.

John Nagle

Posted by Potblak on July 12, 2008, 5:32 am

> pogo wrote:

>> Stumbled across this ad while on Amazon. Sweet looking little robot
>> package. You gotta *request* a price, though. Gotta feeling that means it
>> will be pricey !!!!
>>

http://www.festo-didactic.com/int-en/learning-systems/new-robotino/the-complete-robotino-package.htm

> It's very Festo. Beautiful mechanics, but rather simple software.

Is that such a bad thing?

Posted by steamer on July 12, 2008, 11:11 am

--Dollars to donuts any pneumatic actuators are Festo 'synthetic
muscle' units, or whatever they call those weird inflatable bladder cylinder
thingies. They do work but they're incredibly inefficient.

--
"Steamboat Ed" Haas : "Hold on! we're passing
Hacking the Trailing Edge! : through the moronosphere!"
www.nmpproducts.com
---Decks a-wash in a sea of words---

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